To
the student of Christian Science a great opportunity for service, and for individual growth as well, is found in the work of teaching in a Christian Science Sunday school.
In
conversation with an eminent lawyer who was a visitor in our city and who is a devout student of the Bible, I learned that he had that Sunday morning attended his former church and was invited into the Bible Class, which he had previously taught for some years.
When
the flood of 1913 swept over a great part of the state of Ohio, the thought presented itself to some of us who were not in the flooded districts that we had much to be grateful for, and there was the temptation to attribute this exemption from so terrible an experience to our having awakened to the truth of Christian Science.
Simply because mortal belief has said that sin, disease, and death are real, is it necessary that we accept this as a fact and calmly resign ourselves to an irrevocable fate?
Christian Science insists upon the absolute necessity of overcoming and destroying sinful habits and sinful desires in order to escape from their terrible consequences.
A rector only a few weeks back deplored the fact that the neglect of his church "in the important part of her work," namely, healing as Jesus taught it, "had given an opportunity for Christian Science.
